Please click over and take a look at my AOL piece: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of White Firefighters – BV Black Spin posted yesterday about the ‘New Haven 20′. Here’s an excerpt:
I’ve always been wary of the way the city of New Haven handled the results of its now infamous firefighter promotion test. It never made sense to me. When test results came back, and no black firefighters had scores high enough for immediate promotion, New Haven decided to throw out the results of the test on the grounds …

Breaking now.
Reverses Judge Sotomayor
More soon…
UPDATE — Here is a link to the full decision on Huffington Post

Please join me TONIGHT for All About Race on the Radio at 7pm PST/10pm EST. Tonight we have special guest Farai Chideya whose new novel “Kiss the Sky” features an alternative look at the music world from the perspective of a black punk/alternative rock songstress, Sophie Clare ‘Sky’ Lee.
I loved the book and while reading it I felt I had an insider’s backstage access to rock and roll life. Farai puts the good, the bad and all of the in between, right there on the page.
In addition to discussing …

**Update: In 1988 Ferraro said this about Jesse Jackson :”“if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race.”
I think former Vice-Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro must have lost her mind. Just as Clinton tries to angle a little momentum, Ferraro goes and blasts more Clintonesque racial spittle all over everything. After being roundly criticized for commenting that Barack Obama was essentially receiving affirmative action from voters and the press in the morning, Ferraro amped up her racist bluster with a tightly coiled, wide eyed in rage version …

Recently, I’ve been asked both directly and in roundabout ways, “When do we get to press the racial reset button?” The people who’ve asked this question seem to feel tired of dealing with racial issues and in particular are frustrated by the level of “black anger” they encounter. Those who ask this question want to move on to the point where race is a non-issue. They want to embrace the level playing field so many of us have imagined.
I think it’s a fair question and one that I’ve been thinking …

When you talk about race, there are times when you just want to pull your hair out because you want everybody to see what you see. You believe if everybody could just see what you see, then everybody could agree on the problems and then maybe even agree on ways to solve these problems. A case in point: Affirmative Action. Discussions of Affirmative Action tend to boil up into one of those confrontational, philosophical stews that spill over the sides, scalding every one arguing around the cauldron.